Master of Dromed on 6/5/2020 at 11:54
Hello everyone,
This is my second FM for Thief2 - Into the Dark Forest.
This is the continuation of the story in my first mission - A Tough Night. This mission was made for Thief 2 The Metal Age Anniversary Contest but because it used features from Dromed Deluxe (monsters, textures etc.) was not accepted to take part in the contest. This mission was not made to be compatible with New Dark, this works with Thief 2 1.18 old version. Still it can be played with Thief2 New Dark but has some major issues like a bugged map with white lines instead of black. Converting .pcx map files into .png files will not solve this problem so i strongly recommend you play this mission through Thief 2 1.18 version until further updates are available.
DESCRIPTION:This is a huge mission who requires between 1 and 2 hours of play depending on difficulty level. So do no expect to finish this quick. The action takes place in a mountain/forest/caves environment outside the City Walls. Just read Garrett's Journal in your inventory at start. It contains all the story lines and all you need to know in order to play this mission.
DOWNLOAD: (102 MB .zip file, 144 MB uncompressed)
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ScrpZbpWTlAfZ9Bc0mXTw8Q30nXfBde/view?usp=sharing) https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ScrpZbpWTlAfZ9Bc0mXTw8Q30nXfBde/view?usp=sharing
fortuni on 6/5/2020 at 13:22
2 mission releases in one day, both by the same author and a newbie at that, it this a first for Thief?
Anyway congrats again and again....:D
PinkDot on 6/5/2020 at 22:12
Congrats on the release - I love the outdoors settings - will try it out.
Is this the second and final mission in the series, or do you plan to continue the story?
Master of Dromed on 6/5/2020 at 23:08
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Congrats on the release - I love the outdoors settings - will try it out.
Is this the second and final mission in the series, or do you plan to continue the story?
Thanks ! This is not the final mission in the series as A Tough Night is not the first, there will be other missions after and before those two since i am planning to release a campaign of at least 14 missions called "Dark Age Memories - Life of a Thief". The action takes place in between Thief 1 TDP and Thief 2. Now i am working on two new missions of the series.
Galaer on 7/5/2020 at 08:25
I beat this mission in 2,5 hour on Expert, collected 2497 loot and 2 secrets. I suspect that 3rd secret must have something to do with wall passage in Mage Hideout, but I had no idea how to open it. Map looks good, but again it gets messed up if you scroll to Notes and come back. This is the first time I see this glitch. I wonder why is it happening.
Areas are well designed and guards are also well placed and less sensitive than in previous mission. I like the most design of starting area. But there is flaw - number of loot. All areas are large, but loot appears only in few places inside them. The best example is huge mine (the biggest area in this mission) and yet loot is located only in few places. Yeah, this huge mission would be more enjoyable if loot would be more frequent. So mission is tricky, well designed and still fun.
Master of Dromed on 7/5/2020 at 08:56
Quote Posted by Galaer
I beat this mission in 2,5 hour on Expert, collected 2497 loot and 2 secrets. I suspect that 3rd secret must have something to do with wall passage in
Mage Hideout, but I had no idea how to open it. Map looks good, but again it gets messed up if you scroll to Notes and come back. This is the first time I see this glitch. I wonder why is it happening.
Areas are well designed and guards are also well placed and less sensitive than in previous mission. I like the most design of starting area. But there is flaw - number of loot. All areas are large, but loot appears only in few places inside them. The best example is huge
mine (the biggest area in this mission) and yet loot is located only in few places. Yeah, this huge mission would be more enjoyable if loot would be more frequent. So mission is tricky, well designed and still fun.
Thank you for your feedback Galaer! Actually this mision has 3272 loot so you still have gold to find :) But it's not placed in obvious places, some loot is even hidden. I always try to build my mission in the spirit of the original Thief games, there you can hardly find missions with more than 3000 loot so thats the reason the loot is so scarce.
Since this was my second mission the quality of the game play is better than Tough Night, i was more experienced. All testers reported this is a better mission than A Tough Night.
No ideea about the map bug, but i think its impossible to fix. All my maps got that problem so it's not something related to the map .pcx files.
PinkDot on 7/5/2020 at 21:01
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No ideea about the map bug, but i think its impossible to fix. All my maps got that problem so it's not something related to the map .pcx files.
I agree, that the white letter maps are very hard to read. What makes you think it's impossible to fix? I just fixed a couple of them on my end in Photoshop.
It probably has something to do with the way you - presumably - convert from RGB to Indexed Table picture. (in other words - what color palette you apply).
Master of Dromed on 7/5/2020 at 21:17
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I agree, that the white letter maps are very hard to read. What makes you think it's impossible to fix? I just fixed a couple of them on my end in Photoshop.
It probably has something to do with the way you - presumably - convert from RGB to Indexed Table picture. (in other words - what color palette you apply).
I was talking about the other bug Galaer has found, that the first page of the map looks great at first time and after you switch to second page (Notes) and return to first page again it looked messed up. Why dromed see this corectly at first time and messed up after?
The funny thing is that the white lines are present only if you play the map through Thief 2 New Dark, if you play through Thief 2 1.18 (old Thief) the lines are black and map looks normal. I never tested this in Thief 2 New Dark so i didn't know about the bugs.. right now i'm trying to find ways to fix this.
Basso The Boxman on 8/5/2020 at 03:18
Love this mission! But i am stuck at the chest that is supposed to have the skull. When i open it it’s not there. I accomplished all the objectives but am stuck here. Is this a bug that you are aware of or am i missing something?